The Engaging Leader: Winning with Today's Free Agent Workforce

By Ed Gubman

The free-agent-minded workforce understands that supply and demand rules; when they're not needed, they'll be gone. As a result, experts say, only about one-third of workers are committed to their... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0793165148
• ISBN13: 9780793165148
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Great Read!

The Engaging Leader is an intelligent and creative alternative to the masses of MBA style leadership tomes that we have all encountered. Its focus is on two principal leadership types and the best approaches to refining these within an organizational context, filled with an always unique and diverse audience of employees. The book is helpful to the manager wishing to improve her performance as well as that of the company. Replete with some cutting edge demographic and generational statistics, The Engaging Leader provides a potent refresher as to what an effective business leader needs to focus on in 2003 and going forward. Sports fans will also be reloaded with great super bowl cocktail party fodder as Dr. Gubman highlights several sports analogies and offers his wisdom as to what many a coach should have done in the case of a losing record or amid other team related shenanigans. You will impress your friends with the knowledge and insights gathered from these passages.Read on!

Fabulous, Fun Read

The Engaging Leader is an intelligent and creative alternative to the masses of MBA style leadership tombs that we have all encountered. Its focus is on two principal leadership types and the best approaches to refining these within an organizational context, filled with an always unique and diverse audience of employees. The book is helpful to the manager wishing to improve her performance as well as that of the company. Replete with some cutting edge demographic and generational statistics, The Engaging Leader provides a potent refresher as to what an effective business leader needs to focus on in 2003 and going forward. Sports fans will also be reloaded with great super bowl cocktail party fodder as Dr. Gubman highlights several sports analogies and offers his wisdom as to what many a coach should have done in the case of a losing record or amid other team related shenanigans. You will impress your friends with the knowledge and insights gathered from these passages.Read on!

An everyman's guide to leadership

I've been a human resources professional for over 20 years, and Ed's book is a relief from the academic tomes that fill the bookshelves. It's very approachable, makes the point in a very compelling way how critical great leadership is today, and finds an everyday way to show what leadership means and the difference it makes. The sports analogies are entertaining, and the summary 'huddles' at the end of each chapter are simple and down to earth. Applause.